Re: [xml-dev] Announce: XML Schema, The W3C's Object-Oriented Descriptions for XML

From: "Jeni Tennison" <>

> Come XPath 2.0, and assuming that it supports regular expressions like
> those in XML Schema, Schematron would be able to test this 

Unless the XPath 2 result had already been optimized away based on schema
knowledge that a string is only supposed to contain those characters :-)

How I wish XPath 2 would not be tied to types (or only use casts), and 
just be a nice upgrade to XPath. 

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe